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Honor to so many of us sounds quaint, like an honor code or the Boy Scouts' code or something like that or something primitive, some kind of primitive ethic which we therefore don't really understand.

荣誉，对我们中大多数而言，听起来都会很奇怪，这就像是在说荣誉代码，童子军守则或一些类似的东西一样，亦或是一些非常原始的理论，以致于我们根本不知道这是在说什么。

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Civil liberties are not just an ornament, or a quaint American tradition.

公民自由不只是装饰，不只是古老的美国传统。

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Honor to so many of us sounds quaint, like an honor code or the Boy Scouts' code or something like that or something primitive, some kind of primitive ethic which we therefore don't really understand.

荣誉，对我们中大多数而言，听起来都会很奇怪，这就像是在说荣誉代码,童子军守则或一些类似的东西一样，亦或是一些非常原始的理论,以致于我们根本不知道这是在说什么。

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